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Spate irrigation is a flood-based irrigation, a special type of irrigated agriculture that has been practiced in arid and semi-arid regions for centuries. The irrigation is based on diverting into the low lands the highly variable and unpredictable flash floods from valleys and …

Background: Despite the importance of smart Water Distribution Systems (WDSs) operation in obtaining energy-saving and environmentally friendly strategies, in many cases, the operation is still done according to expert opinion and rules of thumb which use local control schemes o…

Inverse problems in subsurface flow are generally challenging due to the need for a large number of expensive numerical solutions to partial di↵erential equations (PDEs). Inverse modeling typically consists of generating realizations of the unknown model parameters and matching …